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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Solitary Reaper.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of "The Solitary Reaper"?
(a) William Blake.
(b) William Wordsworth.
(c) Percy Shelley.
(d) John Keats.

2. In the second stanza, to whom is the nightingale depicted singing?
(a) Travelers.
(b) The reaper.
(c) The speaker.
(d) Shepherds.

3. Where in the Highlands is the field where the woman is standing?
(a) On the hillside.
(b) In a valley.
(c) At the top of a mountain.
(d) By a river in the foothills.

4. What is the stanzaic form of "The Solitary Reaper"?
(a) Ballade.
(b) Octet.
(c) Ottava rima.
(d) Octave.

5. Besides that the reaper may be singing about some terrible moment in history, what else does the speaker guess she might be singing about?
(a) Modern political events.
(b) Love and romance.
(c) The beauty of the Highlands.
(d) Ordinary, everyday troubles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is evident in the poem's opening line, "Behold her, single in the field" (line 1)?

2. Which line uses deliberate redundancy for emphasis?

3. What technique is employed in lines 7 and 8, "O listen! for the Vale profound / Is overflowing with the sound"?

4. Which stanza could be reasonably called the most positive in tone?

5. How does line 3, "Reaping and singing by herself," interrupt the poem's dominant metrical pattern?

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